Goalpokhar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

In the 2011 elections, Md. Ghulam Rabbani of Congress defeated his nearest rival Saifur Rahman of AIFB.

.# Swing calculated on Congress and Forward Bloc vote percentages in 2006 and 2011, as adequate data not available for intervening bye-election.

 West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, 2011
Uttar Dinajpur district summary

Party	Seats won	Seat change
Indian National Congress	3	2
Trinamool Congress	2	2
Independent/ Rebel Congress	1	1
Forward Bloc	2	0
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1	2
Communist Party of India	0	1

Note: New constituencies – 2 (See template talk page for details)

The bypoll to the Goalpokhar seat was necessitated after sitting MLA of Congress Deepa Dasmunsi resigned. For Elected As MP of Raiganj. As of Results, Ali Imran Ramz of Forward Bloc Defeated Md. Ghulam Rabbani of Congress By almost a Margin of 15,000 Votes.

In the by election in 2009 caused by the election of the sitting MLA, Deepa Dasmunshi of Congress to the Lok Sabha from Raiganj (Lok Sabha constituency), the Goalpokhar assembly seat was won by Ali Imran Ramz of Forward Bloc.[15][19] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Deepa Dasmunshi of Congress defeated Hafiz Alam Sairani of Forward Bloc in the 2006 state assembly elections.[14] Hafiz Alam Sairani of Forward Bloc defeated Deepa Dasmunshi of Congress in 2001,[13] and Md Mustafa of Congress in 1996.[12] Md Ramjan Ali of Forward Bloc defeated Nizamuddin Ahamed of Congress in 1991[11] and 1987,[10] Puranmal Chand Maheswari of BJP/ Independent, in 1982[9] and 1977.[8][20]

Sheikh Sharafat Hussain of Congress won in 1972[7] and 1971.[6] Mohamad Salimuddin of PSP won 1969[5] and 1967.[4] Mohammad Hayat Ali of PSP won in 1962.[3] Muzzafar Hussain of Congress won in 1957.[2] Prior to that Goalpokhar constituency was not there.